Dining Deal: Jasmine Garden, Sea Ranch Lakes

Start with a choice of won ton, egg drop, hot-and-sour or a mix of soups. We go for the dark brown hot-and-sour soup that is nicely filled with wood ear mushrooms, bamboo shoots, tofu and chicken. It has a nice balance between rice vinegar and garlic chile pepper sauce and white pepper that give the soup its heat.

The won ton is thin but flavorful chicken broth with two pork-filled won tons garnished with lots of sliced fresh scallions and bits of pork.

Egg rolls are crisp tubes filled with cabbage, pork and a bit of shrimp.

For an entree, we opt for the hot and spicy shredded beef ($11.95) that is tender meat with fine-

When we order chicken in hot garlic sauce ($10.95), the waitress asks how hot we want it. The tender chicken strips are served with bok choy, miniature corn cobs, snow peas, sliced water chestnuts, sliced mushrooms, broccoli florets, red bell pepper strips and black mushrooms in a sweet garlic sauce. I would like it a bit spicier but less sweet.

You get a choice of a large portion of jasmine rice or fried rice studded with pork and egg and nicely flavored with soy sauce. For this deal, the food is served as individual entrees with the rice of choice on the plate instead of being served for sharing.